Came to a realization today. All the countries adopting EV's at record rates are doing so with government subsidy. EV adherents, needing to justify their expensive toy, promise along side manufacturers that "the technology will get better".
Tell me, when the government mandates something, where is the incentive to improve it? Why would any company want to improve their product when the government is literally telling you that the purchase of that product is mandatory.
To get more customers? Why, they won. They got all the customers, they got the government to make it illegal NOT to buy your product.
So you do what AT&T did, you sit on your ass and count your money and make zero improvements to your product. That's what you do.
The nine-to-five, in particular, was first implemented and popularized by Henry Ford, who used a philosophy of enriching their workers to both solidify his talent and create a customer who could purchase their products as well.
Henry Ford fucking hated unions, and it's savage that union pinkos nowadays simply use unionization as sheepskin to cover "seizing the means of production", and take credit for every good thing that ever happened to working men.
Individual communists don't want to kill you, they just want your stuff and they want government power to take your stuff. That is just petty thievery because they don't even have the balls to take your stuff themselves.
Many individual communists then decide that killing you for your stuff is acceptable - but only if they have institutional power.
Yeah patents need to be obliterated - inventors of products have the first mover advantage on a product which is easily incentive enough to invent something. You don't need to give them a 20-year heat start - a smart inventor with a good product can make a ton of money without a patent.
Could someone steal the design and compete? Sure, but it would take them years to do so because you would have the design and already be producing the product and agile enough to respond far before a competitor could defeat you. And if they are able to defeat you, it's because you were unable to maintain market viability.
Patents are functionally just tools used to beat other inventors with the club of the law to try to get government-mandated monopolies.
They're going to discover what Japanese cartoonists did, and that when people are free to copy and distribute your characters, you get more famous and popular and make more money.
But hey, for some reason Disney believes otherwise so, I mean, it's not illegal to be wrong.
Things have value, and demanding that others give you things of value simply because they are part of society is a violation of their rights.
Combine this with the communists' theory of labour, and you can prove that communism is just a rewording of the re-institution of slavery, after all, you don't deserve what you produce, we do.
These people are slavery advocates, just so long as they are the beneficiaries. Why don't they understand that communism doesn't work?
Because they don't work either.
Say what you want about Musk, but so many people call him an idiot, and that, he certainly is not. Is he eccentric, a womanizer, a rather terrible father, a con man, and weak to the succeptible wiles of fame - yes.
Stupid? No. This man cleverly attached himself to various tech waves that were ahead of the curve and became the richest man in the world because of it. He caught the "government subsidy for electric car" wave and did it far better than Solyndra did, and got stupidly rich off a company that doesn't even make profit. The man is smart, and he knows how to milk an entire country, even world. Buying a media outlet is just part of his PR plan to stay on top.
I mean, he's a terrible person, but most dumb libshits constantly harp on how stupid he is, which is the stupidest criticism you can levy against him when there are so many better criticisms out there.
Plagarism isn't just stealing.
Plagarism is taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own.
If you don't want to be a plagarist, steal the work and then credit the author. That's all you have to do. You can still steal (they can't stop you), and as long as you reference the work, they can't take your money unless what you stole was copyrighted.
So just don't pretend that you created something you didn't. You can make the tiniest text footnote, everyone does this, and you'll be in the clear.
So copy away, friends.
If they don't do this they're going to get three trillion angry twoxchromosomes users who are actually pathetic and unemployed enough to swarm and mass downvote literally anything that happens on r/conservative. The thread was also probably featured on one of their attack dog subreddits like "againsthatesubreddits" because reddit decided around 2016 that literally anything right wing is a hate subreddit.
If so that would be odd. The SR has had flair-locked threads for almost a decade. It's not hard to get flair there, either, just don't be a dumb leftoid, talk on reddit, and submit a request you're almost always approved.
r/con gets brigaded constantly, they had to implement a ton of measures to keep the rabid swarm of leftoids from shitting on every single conservative issue that the users who are foolish enough to still be on reddit have to fight tooth and nail to just say without it having 10,000 downdoots.
It's kind of funny because they hire a lot of artists, by taking this stance, they actually help choke out competition, because many of the most prominent fantasy artists very frequently work for WotC already. If a company using AI art is able to compete with them, they're stuck because they pay a lot for the art, so being anti-AI not only appeases the anti-AI insecure bad artists on twitter, but it also protects their bottom line.
Jesus holy shit the mod is actually good.
Like, it adds a new voice actor, complete new model and animations and actually looks well done. Even incorporated Aylin's skinmarkings she got from being trapped for an eternity.
I thought it was some dumb slapstick mod made to make a point of how dumb Nexus mods was, but serious effort was put into this.
Days since asemi-famous goony, preachy leftoid is outed as a sex pest: 0